Fence



R. A. SMITH.

Fence.

No. 34,650. Patented March 11, 1862.

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UNITE ROBERT A. SMITH, OF NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

FENCE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 34,650, dated March 11, 1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT A. SMITH, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Newburyport, in the county of Essex and Stateof Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Portable Fence; and I dohereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingspecification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of whichFigure 1 exhibits a top view; Fig. 2, an elevation, and Fig. 8, atransverse section of it, Fig. 4, being a side view of the sections orframes of which such fence is composed.

The nature of my invention consists in a mode of constructing each fenceframe or section in order that two or more of them may be arranged andcombined as hereinafter specified. Also, in the combination andarrangement of a connecting bar with the two fence sections, whenconstructed interlocked and arranged substantially as hereinafterexplained.

The fence, as shown by the drawings, is composed of three separatesections A, B, C, any number of which may be used as circumstances mayrequire. Each section is made of a series of parallel rails a, a, a (4which are arranged at proper distances asunder and are connectedtogether by and to a set of two, three or more posts 7), b, b, the upperrail being affixed to one side of each post, while the others or thosebelow it, are fastened to the opposite side of such post, each railbeing made to project a short distance beyond each of the outer posts asshown in the drawings. Furthermore, to the outer ends of the two lowerrails, I fasten two short bars 0, 0, and parallel to the posts, each bar0, being arranged so that there. may be a passage or mortise d, betweenit and the post. The several posts and rails of each section or frame,may be bolted, nailed or otherwise properly fastened together.

In order to compose a fence of such frames or sections, two of them areto be placed end to end and at such an angle to one another as to enablethe adjacent projecting ends of their four upper rails to beinterlocked, as shown in the drawings, in which case, the two adjacentinner posts of the two frames will cross one another. This having beenaccomplished, and the frames set up so that the feet of all their postsmay rest on the ground, I pass a connecting bar D through the nextadjacent mortises of the two frames and so as to fit closely into themin a manner to prevent the frames from further spreading apart, or inother words, to cause them to maintain their relative positions, eachframe while resting on the ground serving to uphold and support theother. A third frame may be similarly arranged and applied to either ofthe two, and still another may be disposed and applied to the third inmanner as above described, a fence, in this way being formed by a seriesof them. It can afterward be easily taken down and transported to, andset up in any other position or place, as circumstances may require.

A fence made as above described, constitutes a very convenient one for afarmer.

who may have occasion to temporarily fence portions of his ground.

I claim 1. My mode of constructing each fence section, in order that twoor more of them may be arranged and combined as specified, the said modeconsisting in making it with two interlocking projections and with themortise arranged in each end of it substantially as specified.

2. I also claim the combination and arrangement of the connecting bar,D, with two fence sections, when constructed, interlocked and arrangedtogether substantially in manner as herein before set forth.

ROBERT A. SMITH.

Witnesses:

EDMUND SMITH, ABBY S. SMITH.

